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(One-half by the Ist of April, BISCUIT MEAL ........ 3,00 0 *int:l;s J and the FLOUR (Kiln -dried) .• .. 404) Ditto maintkr by the • Ist of May. • One-half by the ° Ist of July, SPANISII RED WINE 400 Pipes { and' the th other I half by of August dna. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen al this Office. Each 'fender must specify the price inwards at length, and be delivered before One o'Clek on die day appointed; ouel the Person who makes ilte"Tonter, ur mime Paso:: behalf, must attend to ansleC 1 - rheo rolled for. CLIFTON. PARLIAMENT , 104 HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 13. . • The Viscount BOLINGBROKE took the oats and his seat. BANKING SYSTEM. • • The Duke of ATHOL presented a petition from the Ma gistrates, Commissioners of Supply, and Freeholders, of the County of Perth. The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented petitions to the same effect from . the County of Berwick, from the Royal Burgh of Montrose, and the Corporation of Arbroath. • Lord MELVILLE presented aimilar petitions from the In corporation of Hammermea in Edinburgh, from Wigtoun, Dundee, and Lanark. CORN LAWS. • 'The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a petition, with the prayer of which, however, he did not concur , against the pre sent system of orn LaWs. • SLAVERY. The Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a petition from the High Sheriff of Surrey, signed on behalf of the County, pray-, ing for the Abolition of Slavery. The Bishop of LITCHFIELD and COVENTRY present ed a similar petition from the Gentry, Clergy, and others, of Newport, in the County of Salop. Lord DE DUNSTANVILLE, to the same effect, from Saltash. in Cornwall. ' The. Marquis of LA NSDOWN, on the part of his 'Noble Friend, the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby, pre sented Petitions to the same effect from Chesterfield in that county. His Lordship also presented similar Petitions from the Borough of Camelford, from Bishopston, and Broadchalk, in Wiltshire, and from Milford, in South Wales. Lord BARHAM presented Petitions on the same subject' from Tunbridge Wells,','Cranbrook, Goudhurst, Town Mal; Lenhami East Sutton, and Charlton. PAPERS AND ACCOUNTS. Mr. MASON, from the East India House, presented Monthly Returns of all Salaries, Pensions, &c. granted by the lion. East India Company, from 1824 inelusive. SCOTT, from the Chamberlain's Office of the City of London, presented various accounts respecting the New 149 n. don Bridge, and the funds of the Orphan Society. • Mr. DAVENronT, and other Members, brought up several Private Bills from the House of Com Mons. The Marquis of LA NSDOWN gave notice that he would; to-morrow, move for a return of the Imports and Exports of the Town ofSincapore, in the East Indies. He anticipated 'no opposition, but thought it becoming to give notice. The Unnecessary Prisons , ' Disposal Bill, then passed through the Committee, and was reported.—Their Lordships then adjourned. • . 02. . 110 . - 1)3 . 121, . • 20. . 95 . 10 . 101 Paper Paper Goods Hard Soap . Soft Soap . Tea . Cut Glass . Oreen ditto . Flint ditto . a 1 317 29 201 106 133 ForiigA Buttor Sugar Tallow Timber Deal Coffee. Hemp Upon the article of runt there was a diminution in coniequence of the alteration of the law. 273 I Wool (S.) 13 I Ditto (Cotton) 418 Silk' - Tobacco - This was enough to she ihe, progressive -pelvicr of consump• Lion, to chew that the strength and resources of the country were not only unimpaired, but greatly increased, and 'to make hiat rely with confidence upon its power to'crtierge uninjured frotit the temporary difficulties in which it was involved. But he !Living to state the progress o)icit had been made in retitle- tion of the &Moir/dist they had beery •vapidly reducing taxes, and giving their scope to the consumption Of the 'country. The Funded Debt amounted on the tith January, . . 1823, to . . . X 7.96,530,000. On the Ltll January, 1826, to • • 778,123,000 EAST INDIA 11()Uu,E, Feb. 10, 182 G. T" E COURT of DIRECTOIO ,of the UNITED co , ,IPANY 'of MERCHANTS or ENG LAND TRADING it, he INOIES, do bereby give Making a difference of . . 18,401,000 It Thus appeared that for the last three years they had been re- ducing the Vurided Debt at the average rate each year 4; 6,132,000/. . . • TlietTnfunded Debt amounted on the - 6th January, 1823, to . . . . . £ 36,281.006 On the sth January, 1826, to . '-. 31,703,000 Spewing a reduction of 4,577,000 He would no give a statement Of the total charges, for that was the only way in which any, true and satisfactory averagel could be taken. Any other mode of computation, . taking for its basis the average price, or founded upon any :other ground than this must be confused and fallacious. 'his was the prac. Notice, • That the COT , TIa will he ready to receive PROPOSALS in writing, on or before WEDNESDAY, ,t he frith of March next, frntil the Owners of good, sound, and subtsantial SHIPS, of the liarthen : n( 11'0111.400 to 900 Tout Ite i zi.d eyed measurement, specifying' the 'rate, of freight at which they may he to LET such SHIPS, for ONE VOYAGE to and from BENGAL. That the COURT, will also he ready to receive PROPOSALS in writing, on. 'or before the said tVEDNESOAY, the imb of March next, frOnt the Owner or Owners of gond, snood, nod substantial copper•bottomed SHIPS, of the Btu then of front 500 to 600 Tuns Registered meastuement, specifying the Rate of Freight at which they may he willing to LET loch SHIPS for ONE VOYAGE to CHINA, and trim' UIINA. to QUEBEC, in North America, at which Port they are to be diichorged from the Company's Service. That the COURT will also he ready to receive PROPO SALSin writing, 'on or before the said ti'ith March next, from th e Owner or Owners nf good, sound, subst antial cop . - per-bottomed SHIPS, of the burthen of from 500 to Goo Tons, registered measurement, specifying the nate of Freight at which they may he willing to LET such SHIPS for ONE VOYAOF. to CHINA, and from CHINA to HALIFAX,. in Nova Scotia, at which port they will be discharged from the • Company's Service. The Tenders, with the words "Ship Tender" an the cover, to be icverrilly,sealed up and left with the Secretary, at tliiy House, nt or before Twelve o'CloCk at Noon, : the said 'Wednestlay,,,the 1511? of March, beyond whkh Court wilt not receive any Tender. JosEtqi nma, secretary. The Particulars of the Terms and Conditions upon which the WO will be respectively employed, may be Inul upon flpplicatiun ut the-Otlice of the Clerk to the Committee of Shipping, at this lions*, on or after ednesday neat, the 15th Instant. LONDON TAVERN, MONDAY, MARCH 111, 11126. (IN SATURDAY, the 11th host. I addressed a Note to the Secretary of the Hon. East Iridia Coin Pany,. announcing my intention to proceed to the Ballot on the .12th April, as a CANDIDATE for one of the Vacancies in the 4mirt of Directors, but that Letter not having reached its destination until this day, my name tides not appear in the List announced to the Public ; -wherefore, `to prevent any ptss.- liibe misconception on the subject, I hereby decl►re my firm deternfination.to proceed to the BALLOT on that illy, in full confidence of public support. WILLIAM YOUNG. Lieut—Colonel Sir William 'loonies Committee. trill meet every day at the London Tavern, where Communications from his 1 7 riencl , will be gratefully received. I . - NOTICE TO ARTISTS. AAA, WOILKS of PAINTING, SCULP. ..£l. TORE, nod .111.'7111T4WTITRE, intended for the en: suing EXHIBITION at the .I.I.OYAL ACADEMY,. nvw ti, sent i n on :\iON D A 1. . the 341, or by Six o'Cloeli on TUES DAY, the Oh of April, after which time none can possibly 1 ' be fecei‘ekl. The vim tteulari necessary to be attended to may be ob tained ley Jpplication at time Royal Academy. I I ENItY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. • A PATENT HAT with a DOUBLE BRIM. TI - 1 G Complaints universally made of 'Hats manufactured on the Old Principle, that they break, admit the ram in the Brim, lose their shape, and get toe large tor the Head, induced . GA LON and CO. • to . ohtain his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent on the 27th of August; 11125, for a NEW WATER-PROOF BEAVER HAT, with a DOUBLE BRIM, which no rain can ever pe netrate, nor can the severest west. ever break. It can neither lose its shape, soften, nor alterAn size, and for Colour, Ele- , fiance, and Durability, it is unequalled : in fact: all the ini. perfections corm:ion to otherilats are effectually removed and cdanteracted. This Ilat will also be found the most economical, as it will OUTWEAR TWO made in the usual.way. • Price 30 Shillings. Manufactured by GALON and Co. 393, STRAND; oppo site Cecil-street THE GRAVEL AND STONE, LUMBAGO, ttge. 1111riCKNI AN'S PILLS are. allowed to be the .111.JIL , most successful Preparation for effectually removing and preventing the future recurrence of those Disordets which arise from an imperfect action of the Urinary Organs, as Gravel and Stone, Lumbago, Pains in the Back and Loins, Suppression of Urine, &c. Composed of the most innocent ingredients, this truly valuable Medicine relieves the suffer ing patient from the excruciating tortures of those diseases without ahy tiolenee or injury to the Constitution, and re quires no confinement or restraint of dirt during its use. It is one of the eldest Public Medicines extant t and its Imola liar virtues and efffcacy baVe uniformly maintained the highest reputation, Sold in Boxes, at 2s. 9d. and I ls. by Butlers, Chemists, 4, Cbeapitide, corner of St. Paul's; and 54, Sackville-street, Dublin i Savory and Co. 134, New Bond-street, and 20, Re gent-street ; and by the Princip Medicine Venders through ont the United Kingdom. Of wli° l u may be had BUTLER'S CAJEPUT OPODELe DOC', ttrnugly recommended in Chronic Rheumatism, Spas riudic Affections, Palsy, Stiffness, and Enlargement of the Joints, Sprains, Bruisei & c. In Bottles, at is. lad. and th, 9d. 'MUSE OF COMMONS. The door of the gallery was not opened till three o'clock, but . a great body of persons had collected long before that hour, and iu a few minutes the gallery was crowded to excess. A person from the India House presented several papers re lating to that establishment.—Laid on the table. .. Mr. SCOTT, from the Chamber of London, presented Several papers which were laid on the table. Mr. Sec TRY presented an account of the number of persons admitted annually to the needing-room of the British Al useum% Laid on the table. .... This being the last day appointed by thellouse f or the first rending of Private Bills, several 'Bills, principally .releting ,to Bail-roadi..Canals—Ges and Water Companies, &c. were read a first time and disposed of. . . MISCELLANEOUS. . Mr. T. WILSON brought in a Bill to enable the building of an Arcade from Lincoln's inn-fields to Holborn.—Read a first • time, Dr. PM LLIMORE thought it but right to inform the Ron. ‘lerober who had introduced the Bill, that it would meet with the most 'unceasing opposition. It was deserved opposition,: for he knew as *4lt. et that it was against the will of nearly all the inhabitants of Lincoln's Inn-fields. Alderman Woon moved the second reading of the Bill for the Abolition of Tithes in the Parish of St. (iiles, Ctipplegate. —Read a second time and committed. ' Mr. H. Suirwitt brought in a Bill to better asses the Taxes in the parish of All Saints, Wandsworth.—ltend a first time. Mr. CU lIT EIS brought in a Bill to improve the Harbour of Rye..-=Read a first time. Mr. HohnotisE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to build a New Gaol in the city of Westminster. Mr. BYNO brought up the Itt:port of the Committee on the East London Ball-road Bill.—Laid on the table. . "CURRENCY. Mr. Custns a presented a petition from the inhabitants of Fores, in Scotland, against any alteration in the Currency el Scotland.—Ordered to 'he printed. A slmilar petition wss presented by Mr. 111 A tax from ti: ,. Merchants, Corporation and others of Dundee.—Laid on th. 2. table. Mr. Dow= presented two petitions from the Millis trates an.l other inliabitints' of Inverkeithing and Stirling, against any alteration in the . Currency of Scotland. 7 -Ordered to be printed. SLAVERY. Mr. BENG presented a petition from the Inhabitants of Crockton against Slavery.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. Cu ItWEN pre s en ted several petitions from parishes in Cumberland to the same effect..—Orderetl to be printed. Sir E. liAuvgY presented xpetition from th‘Mayor, Alder men, Clergymen, and others of Saffron Walden, against Slavery.—Ordered to CORN be printed. LAWS. • Colonel CAVSNDISH presented a petition from a Body of Operative Silk Weavers, praying for a revision of the Corn Laws—Ordered to be printed. • CHURN! RATES. • Sir J. NEWPORT prese nted' a petition from a To wn in the County of Westmeath, against the Church Rates. After a few words from Mr. T. SMITII and Mr. Gout, n Rat, the petition was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. HOUSE AND WINDOW TAX. Mr. 11. Davis Presented a petition, signed -by the lnhabi.: ants of two Parislies in Bristol, praying for a Repeal of the House and Window Tair.—Laid on the table. PENAL LAWS. Mr. M. SMITH presented a Petition from the Catholics of Drogheda, praying for a repeal of the Penal laws, and dis. claiming the charge of divided 'allegiance. Sir J. NEWPORT, in supporting the petition, said that the charge of divided - allegiance had been producth , e of a great deal of mischief in Ireland; • The Petition was laid on the table, and ordered to beprinted. DALLAS ESTATE. v . n O the motion of illr. P. CORBETT the House went into a ' Committee on the Dallas Estate Bill, and the Report was or- dered to be received to-morrow. . The CHANCEIJLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Com niittee of Ways anti Means. The House accordingly went into Committee. THE BUDGET—(FINANCIAL STATEMENT.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose, but from the confusion of the Gallery we could not hear hisfirst words. When the Right lion. Gentleman 'became audible, he was stating that there was nothing, to his mind, in the aspect of public aflidrs which warranted any excessive alarm or despondency. There might be ground, and there was ground, for individual sympathy ; and much individual distr.o had undOubtedly prevailed. And it was impossible that the same causes which had produced such effects, should. not also have', given rise to much public inconvenience. But he would ven ture to express a confident belief that the violence of the storm had now passed away; that the clouds were dispelled, that by the conflict of the elements the atmosphere had been puri fied, and that order and prosperity would emerge from the con fusion which bad recently lowered upon the prospects of the 1 country. It' there were any thing obscure or Mysterious in the causes which had led them into the difficulties they had ex perienced, if those causes were such as their understandings could not reach, then there might be much more ground for un easiness and appreh6nsion, than appeared to hint really to exist. But in all the discussions which bad taken place since the opening of the Session, although differences of opinion had prevailed upon other points,- there had been, he thought, but one general opinion as to the nature of thosecauses.—and but onegeneral opinion as to the manner in which they h"ave pro duced their consequenceS. To his mind, these circumstances had been a source of much unnecessary contest between those who were somewhat' sneeringly denominateii philosophers, and another class who ascribed to themselVes the more !limbie ap pellation of practical men. Ile said that this had been an un necessary stingele, hecausa it was the application of sound rea sonieg powers to the results of practical experienee, 1 ' 04101 m" direct them tethe'true principles of legislation.' It was by the just combination Of those two elements of wisdom that the House and the ptiblic must come tow right conclusion as to the most effectual mode of escaping front s the difficulty in which they ,were now , placed. If they were, indeed, those by whom—in preparing their minds to tome to a derision upon such subjects e-theY should be told that books and reason were to be rejected, he knew not at what springs they must drink when driven from the fountain. at which science and knowledge Were the presiding Deities. In the general spread of. knowledge which bad been constantly proceeding tinting the- laitt Atalf Century,' were they who sat there as Ministers of the Cioan,oeita Legislators, to be behind-hand with the people whom they- had to govern, and for whom they made laWs? Otte`'tl. they not rather to be fore most in the race ? knowing that. ,the progress of knows ledge must be gradatti3Ought they net to take the hest adVan. tage of the time, to place themselves beibre their countrymen, and prdtecti them against errors into which they might other Wise fall by a premature action upon the partial information which they might at first mistake for knoWletige.—(Cheers.)—He knew ther'e were' those WhO'feared the spread of knowledge, but he partook of no such feeling. To him, it promised an effect diametrically opposite. The more the people were edudated, . the more likely they would be to see what was good, and to avoid that which was 'bads—the more likely they would be Lb . repose upon the idea that knowledge was power. To his Mind, then, this application of knowledowas of the greatest importance as {V 1 . 6 respeet to tilt; difficulties from which they were, endeavouring' •to recover, as in respect to times to come.— If he fiiiindthe r he found the Government extracting a knowledge of sound principles from the experience of exist. ditlicultiete he looked with comparative indifference at their return, Partly because that would be less likely to occur, and it' it should, because they should be better able to meet and con trottl them. stated thus much in respect to the parti ettin circumstances of the country, it now became him to look at its Finances as they stood, and to consider the nature of their prospects for the futire. Rut .befoie he proceeded to state to the Committee.what were the intentions of his Majesty's :Government, he would beg to'recal their attention to the course which he had paraued for the last two or three years. And he would do this because belied been reproached in no measured terms, for jhplangtrage he had from time to time thought fit to hold, avid accused of having contributed thereby to the spirit ' which led fti'the recent sufferings of the country. True it was that While it had been his lot to explain the annual state of their thiate cial circurnstences—true it wits that he had spoken in the Inn. gunge of confidence and congratulation. From that language Ale would not now depart. Ile hail declared the affairs of the country to be prosperous, and he weuld not now shrink front repeating it. The country was not in a situation which war ranted hint in throwing out a declaration of its being in a state of decadence; and although in the natural warmth of feeling a man might be allowed to indulge in the expression of hope to a somewhat greater extent than prudence would perhaps carry him—this he would venture to say—he haul stated nothing its fact which did not bear him out in the result. Ile would revert, therefore, to what he bud done and said, and in the course of the three years he would chew, that however he might have erred in the language whiCh . lie used to express his feelings, yet he hind neither practised deception upon the House, nor held out pros peas , of delusion to the country. When in the year 1 823 It first became his lot to take a view Of the finances of the country, he, ventured to assume that in the course of the year a certain amount of revenue would accrue.' Ile begged leave to aak-z. whet was the result ? lie founded his estimate then upon no vague, imaginary foundation, but upon the plain simple basis of the amount of revenue received in the preceding year.' Ile would shew the Committee that hi 1823,1821, and 1825, in all his Estimates for those three years, not only were the expecta tions which beheld out realized, but they were exceeded by an amount which the most sanguine men in the country could never have anticipated. In the year 1823 he estimated the pro bable receipts of the Customs and Excise, the Stamps, the Post Office, and the Miscellaneous, at 52,200,0001. He then pro ceeded to repeal taxes in that Session to upwards the amount of 3,000,0001., and in the course of' the 'year lie calculated there would be lost to the Revenue a million and a half. Therefore, if the Revenue had been lets hy1,500,000/. than in the preceding year, his calculation would have been folly realised. Now what was the fact ? The actual produce of the revenue turned out to be, 52,017,0001., being less than the produce of the preceding year, notwithstandinx the repeal of above 3,000,0001. of taxes, by the simple sum of 182,000/. From this statement it was pretty clear that he held out no expectations to the house which were delusive or unreal., Ia thneye,aorlth repeat a t t l :d xes th t e o p a u c t o ) l n ic . income at 51,265,000/. dpa to sitlerable. amount, in consequence of which lie calculated upon a loss to the Revenue of 530,000/. But the actual produce of the year again exceeded his original estimate in 'the following e = punted to 52,562,000/. and proportion :—the net Reve n u e his estimate to 51,285 0001•; so that the actual receipt was 1,:t00,000/. more than he had, led the House to expect. The same thing again ,happened in 1825. Ile then calculated that tr,2 t the revenue would produce the twin of 61,97.5,001 th, and that 650,0001. would be lost by the reduction of taxes.— The actual receipt of that year, however, exhibited not a eti los t s o , aioosuotrp!ubSeliblgeyouniodre et: 1 : 311 7 estimate— ori l g t in n a i l no t t , tn ,t t i: mate, as he fraMed It, even if :there had been no reduction of taxes at all. The result of al: thii was, that the Incothe estimated b y hi m d ur i n g these three years anireat.ted. to 155,440,0901. The Revenue actually received, to yx,tat.nont. The produce exceeding the estimate b y no l es s a suit then 1,398,0001. Now, 'wheii these circumstances were t it to, and when it was considered that he had reduced B,ooti two/ ut taxes in the mean time, he thought he might boldly assert that. he had not been guilty of stating any thing which was either wrong in feet, or delusive to the House and the country.— (Cheers.) --!le bad'said that during these three years taxes to the amount of 8,000,0001. had been repealed. Hut they should he taking only an imperfect view of the reduc tions which had been effected if they stopped here. He must therefore beg the Committee to .go back with him to ,the year : IBM and see what Parliament had done since the , winding up of, the war, enafiled them to relieie the country of a portion of, its burthens.— He thought it necessary to da, this, because it was said the amount of taxes they had reduced were not worth thinking of, 1 , „Anti they would scarcely equal the difference in the value of the currency, and that there could be no possibility of return. ing to that state contemplated by the measures which had oc cupied .theta during the Session, unless a large reduction of taxation took place. lie thought these propositions were I not warranted by the facts, and he was confident in' being able •to shear that there .was no foundation for the assert!an that they haul done nothing or not enough to render :these , changes practicable. lie did not mean, to say when he used the word " enough" that they were to do no more as soon as opportunities offered, but he conteud. Jed that . the repr nentationS to which be haul alluded were not consistent with the facts'of the case. In looking to the amount of the reduction of taxes which haul taken place, they must go back to the year 1816 ; and taints it would be seen that Parlia ment had not slept at its post, but had shewn itself mindful of thutreblie interest. In 1316, then, which was' the first year of the reduction of taxes, they repealed—first, the Property Tax. He Inew this ,was effected: contrary to-the opinion of the Go vernment; who thought it ought to WT .. been Maintained for two. years longer. But, however, Parliament thought and de cidtd a tberwis r e ; and whether the decision was,right or wrong, it was quite certain that the people benefited by the re peal of the nix to the 'amount of 14,320,0001. The Malt .Duty wad repealed in the same year, amounting to 2,700,0004 and the 11rar Tonnage Duties to 828,0001. The Assessed 'l l axes in Ireland were also reduced, amounting to 35,000/. and the Malt Tax in Ireland to 315,000/. The total of all these repeals was 18,288,000/. In 1817 there was a reduction of 280,0001. 1n.1318, Assessed Taxes in Ireland were again re.y pealed to the amount of 236,000/. In 1819 a different policy was pursued, which created an addition of 3,000,0001. to the taxation of the country, and to which he should presently ad vert. In 1020 there was no change. ,In 1021 the Agricultural Horse Tax was reduced, amounting to 4E10,000/. In 1822 they reduced the Malt Tax 1,400,000/, 'the Salt Tax 1,395,0001. the Leather Tax 300,0001., and the Tonnage Duties 260,0001. The total of the reduction of that year 3,355,0001. In 1823, the total amount reduced, including the Assessed Taxes, was 3,350,000/. In 1824 'the reduction was 1,721',0001. 'ln 1825 there-were various items of repeal, including the remainder of the Salt Duty, the reduction of that upon hemp, upon coffee, upon wine and spirits., a further repeal of Assessed Taxeg, and other items, amounting in the whole to 3,146,000/. Front this statement the Committee would see that there had beerian actual remission since the closeof the s waT of 30,712,000/. of taxes. But they must deduct frenrthat amount the 3,198,0004 imposed in the year 1810, which would leave the clear sum of 27,52 0 , 0001 .-;-- Well, then, he would say, that this was a substantial and de.: cided relief to the country; and he thought it impossible . for any titan in his sensestOdeny that such a ,relief front taxation had not contributed to increase the revenue by increasing the capability of the people to purchase articles of Consumption.— It was quite true that there hail been an alteration in the value of the Currency. This rectification of the currency could be computed as varying his statement no further than by the de gree of its previous deterioration. It was not deteriorated above five per cent. at the , period from which, his compe tition commenced. - the' year 1814, the total amount of revenue was sixty-one milliOns; five per cent. upon this sum would give three millions, and if this were deducted front the former amount, of 27, 520 , 00 0/. : there. would th e n remain l a cleat reduction of 2.1 millions and : a half. This was so much clear benefit, It was necessary to argue a priori, that a mitigation of taxation to this amount must be, a very material, benefit to the country. Facts had occurred to put this beyond the possibility of dispute. Although . a reduction had peen ef fated to the amount of 27 million, the acute) receipts bad been diminished only by 9 millions, the receipts in 1816 having been 61 millions, and those of the last year 52n011ions. It was evi dent, therefore, that 18 millions of the present receipts arose front the improved means of the people, the effect of tile relief which had been administered to them by the previous redac tion. If this were disputed, he :would take, for instance, the Salt Duty, and appeal with confidenee to the lion. Mein for Wareham. That Honourable Member had strongly and properly urged the repeal of 'this tax. He would ask him, then, whether he did not believe that the poor roan now experienced a sensible relief from what had been done ? 7 -11 e would ask the 171,800 persons who had received benefit from the reduction of the House Duty, or the 135,000 who had received benefit from the alteration of the Window Tax, whether they thought, like the Hon. Member for Aberdeen, that nothing had been done —(llar, hear!)--- whether they , thought that Ministers had been carrying on a System of extravagance- . --whether they were prepared to ac euse ;them of keeping up an, unnecessary, .revenue, for the sake of a little paltry patronige.—(Chears.)—With re spect to patronage, he could declare upon his honour, that he never once thought of it. The idea never came into his Mind in connexion with the extent of the public esta. blislunents, and the necessary amount of revennea. Ile was net of course, any more than others, free fromtapplications, or without persons about him for whom he in igitt naturally tel tan inclination to provide. Hut when applied le he had always given one general answer, that :Government was upon the econotulcal system, that it wit/fuseless for any body to apply who was either two,old or too 'young or in any Other way disqualified for the situation to which he aspired. He we. frequently compellei b out of t t o i f l e ) r o a , o v tnra tatt a , t 1 ( 1: e , I l k; as t l Forty r, fee t i h t e , taut liem. th a t mar. i lhd t ueisnw w :i a lnli s noisw q lwi t e t h i db t ;t e el allowed f!ity that dut , ing the time that this diminution of itst d fits had also been taxe s took place, the permanent burdens of the country, he mbuct e bna t f t o l:n e s i e le C . t w Th e ri n C t c l t n et t i o N e ti i , t et il t ~ it might be well to proportion the power of consumption had encreased, in order 40. prove that.the country was uot a state to warrant any de- fiat' and satisfactory point of comparison hefiireen one period • and anoiNr, the amount of charge which the country had actually to pay. .'Jhe (Tharp of Interest and Management of the Funded Debt, as it stood on the sth January, 1023 . . . . .C2R,123,000 Op the sth January, 1820 . . . `✓7,117,003 Difference 1,006,000' The Intrrest of Exchetpter fills outstanding, January 5, 1823 . . . . 1,100,00 January 5, 1826 • , • • 13420,004 Difference . 280,0014 Taking those two descriptions of charge together, the reduction would amount to 1,339,000/. The charge of the Funded And Unfunded Debt, , on the 6th January, 1823 . . . £29,286,000' On the 6th January, 1026 • • 27,946,000 Giving the difference of 1,33 . 9". Now it was nothing at all, in his view of the case, whether this reduction had been accomplished by the Sinking Fund, or by the reduction , of interest, or by any other means. Substantially the burdens of the country bad been diminished to this ainoun‘ . And it was surely a subject of the, warmest congratulation that this had been accomplished, Whilst in the mean time i `eyery thing had been done to keep up and even to increase all the materiat elements of maternal greatness and power, whilst much had been effected to improve the internal conveniences and or» naments of the country, whilst something had been spared'to , provide proper edifices for the duties bf religion, and something also for the encouragement of the Arts. If doing alt this, they had also erected a considerable reduction of debt, they had surely done something towards the fulfilment Oftheir duty, and they need not, he thought, be ashamed to meet their conatitut , cuts, in whatever part of the country they were to be found. :: ::— But there was another part of the public charge to which h would now advert -- he meant the expence of the ' collktion, of , the Revenue. Against this charge he had always been disPos4., yr wage an unrelenting war. The exponee collection in 1818 In 1025 . ,E4,256 : 006 3402,0t10.:: Shewing a diminution of half 3 Considering that there was a great deal to do, in accomplisi ing such an object as this, it could not be done all at once:L.l .; They had many prejudices and interests, and deep-rooted habits to encounter. He could not give a stronger proof of this than %vat had been recently Published in the northeili part of the Island.—(Hear, bear !)—The amalgamation of the revenue of the two parts of the kingdom, and the consetpteiat abOlition of the Scotch Boards of Excise and Customs, had, been, described to the Scotsman as offensive to his dignity,:and subversive of his rights.—(llear, hear I)—This reminded him of the beautiful passage with which our greatest Poet had made the youthful and enthuhiastic Mari Antony wind up his oratioji over the body of Ctesat— . . " 0 what a fall VW there my countrymen, Then you and I and all of us fell-down, Whilst bloody treason flourished over Us." (I,olltl eticerrl—Why this appeal *all adt more passionait , than that recently made to the people of Scotland, on the fault tragedy of the abolition of two' petty provincial fiscal depart.. mints. When he afterwaKds niet his Noble Friend, the First Lord of the Atnirahy, he had been ashamed to hold up his head, till at last he recollected that he himself had some claim' to Scottish blood. When he thought of Scotland—of the gpniva of her illustrious of Poets—the curious and valuable disiove , ries of her profound philosophers—of the accuracy, elegance, and rekvartth at her historians—of her intellectual demi. nion over, the regions both of fancy and of truth—when he. call, ccl te'rnind the atchievements of an Abercrombie, a Moore, a Lyrietlork, Will llopetoun--when he recollected that last year he, by a wily act of juy,tice, moved for a Montottent to the memory of .Duncan—he never dreamed that the hon our of Scotland was in be tarnished by the transfer of BOatti of Customs or rotcise ricrilts her border.— (Loud and' peated•' Chetrs.)-:.11 the Excise 11101 never mcddte wltylef Whiskey, or thi l'ortieins with her 'Ceritiocrett, still lit:veiled enough of which to be Proud, 4iid 11i3tte 'rialti of hottest pride she would steretain riot withttantiittg the degrading' tendency of English If he had 'been rurally a Scetchroan he w"lit httve . been:too Frond to admit that the dignlty,,9t ‘s"tinmi could be "P*4,4